Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Akhilesh Kumar Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 23/05/2025. The matter related to illegal mining activites carried out by Jai Maa Chandrika Enterprises, Rajendra Nagar, village Kabari, district Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh. The applicant also alleged about illegal sale …
Ajay Modi / New Delhi November 23, 2009, 0:57 IST But, sugar firms want Rs 28 a litre. Following the recent decision of the Union Cabinet to continue with the mandatory 5 per cent ethanol blending with petrol, oil marketing companies (OMCs) have agreed to increase the price of ethanol …
Jairam Ramesh Biofuels have a limited role in India due to land limitation and food security issues, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said today, a view which differs from the official line pushing for a 20 per cent blend of such fuel in gasoline and diesel by 2017. Pitching for hybrids …
JAIPUR: Experts attending a zonal consultation on bio-fuel for semi-arid eastern plains of Rajasthan here over the week-end called for evolving a balance between the commercial production of bio-fuel bearing plants such as jatropha and the use of common land, crucial for the rural poor, for their cultivation. The consultation
P Jonathan Ambrose | Taking a leaf out of Delhi's book, the Tamil Nadu Transport Department (TNTD) has decided to go in for an ecofriendly transport fuel system. The only difference: TNTD intends to use biofuel instead of Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) used in Delhi. The project to develop an …
Praveen Kumar Singh, Vikas Dhoot New Delhi: By the time the Indian contingent leaves for the global climate change summit in Copenhagen next month, the government will be ready with a holistic strategy for promoting environment-friendly vehicles. The idea is to not just incentivise more research by industry but also …
America will not pass a cap-and-trade law in time for the global climate-change summit in Copenhagen next month. To understand why, it helps to ask a farmer. Take Bruce Wright, for example, who grows wheat and other crops on a couple of thousand acres near Bozeman, Montana. His family has …
Environment activist Subhash Dutta moved the high court on Monday seeking the promotion of bio-diesel and withdrawal of a petroleum ministry circular barring the use of the fuel in vehicles. Bio-diesel is an eco-friendly fuel alternative for diesel engines. The petition stated that while the Centre had exempted bio-diesel from …
This paper presents performance of single cylinder diesel engine using blends of karabi seed biodiesel. Potassium hydroxide was used as catalyst to facilitate estarification process. It has been observed that karabi seed biodiesel can effectively be used as diesel fuel substitute in existing diesel engine without any engine modification.
B Krishna Mohan / Hyderabad October 20, 2009, 0:55 IST Biomass energy developers in Andhra Pradesh have been feeling the pinch of rising fuel prices over the past few months. With the kharif crop failing due to drought this year, the price of rice husk, which has the highest calorific …
Filling your vehicle's tank with fuel made from algae is still as much as a decade away, as the emerging industry faces a series of hurdles to find an economical way to make the biofuel commercially. Estimates on a timeline for a commercial product, and profits, vary from two to …
This report by ICCT reviews current trends in motorcycle emissions and fuel efficiency technology. Summarizes policy approaches to improve motorcycle emission and energy performance, and discusses what is required to implement these policies. The purpose of this report is to identify how nations can best manage their growing ranks of …
Scientists and companies around the world are working on microbiological processes to make bioethanol out of cellulose. They're also wondering whether butanol may not be even better.
U.S. biofuel company Solazyme Inc said on Thursday it will be providing its algae-derived jet fuel to the U.S. Navy for testing and certification. Privately held Solazyme will sell 1,500 gallons of the green fuel to the U.S. Navy, which is buying fuel from the San Francisco-based company for the …
B.S. Satish Kumar The Federation of Karnataka Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FKCCI) has appealed to the State power regulator to extend the rebate on solar energy to those who use other alternative sources of energy such as biofuels and agricultural waste, to heat water. In its objections filed before …
Ethanol from sugarcane is not an option available to water-deficient India Subir Roy / New Delhi September 16, 2009, 0:36 IST Ethanol from sugarcane is not an option available to water-deficient India. The sharp rise in sugar prices in India, now the world
Biofuels investor Clean Energy Brazil has sold its stake in a Brazilian sugar mill for much less than its initial investment after the plant's debt pile proved too much of a burden in a tough ethanol market. Brazil is the world's largest producer and exporter of cane-based ethanol, used as …
